- I can’t decide if Tim Walz most resembles Don Rickles, Nikita Khrushchev, or Curly Howard.
- At the first congressional hearing on immigration in which I participated nearly 20 years ago, those crossing into the U.S. without permission were called “illegal aliens.” At a hearing a few years later, they were referred to as “illegal immigrants.” A couple of years after that, the term became “undocumented immigrants.” Now it’s “migrants.”
- No sentient being, regardless of political affiliation, is wondering how the media would be treating stories of Doug Emhoff’s past “relationships” if his spouse were the Republican candidate for president.
- Of the ten hardest hitters I’ve ever seen play in the NFL — Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke, Night Train Lane, Mike Singletary, Jack Tatum, Earl Campbell, Ronnie Lott, Jack Lambert, Jim Brown, Lawrence Taylor — going one-on-one against Tatum would scare me most (although Hollywood Henderson once remarked, “Every time you hit Earl Campbell, your IQ goes down”).
- What official acts taken by Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the last three and a half years have not harmed the interests of the American people?
- It is not racist or jingoistic to ask why the Biden administration has brought more than a half million aliens into the U.S. from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua in the last two years.
- I suspect Hung Cao will be a good senator; but I know he’s a great American.
- The Biden administration’s indifference to the alarming rise in campus antisemitism verges on criminal.
- The Program for International Student Assessment now ranks the performance of U.S. 15-year-olds in math 37th in the world; China’s 15-year-olds rank first.
- Eugene Cernan was the last U.S. astronaut to walk on the moon . . . in 1972.
- I would not have recognized that Kamala Harris’s teleprompter had malfunctioned a couple of days ago unless I’d been so informed.
- The party purportedly concerned about threats to democracy appears to have no such concerns about freedom of speech or religion.
- The report that large percentages of students entering “elite” colleges have never read an entire book is yet further evidence the movie Idiocracy will soon be considered a documentary.
- Among the few advantages of growing old is that you can more easily identify when politicians, media, etc. are rewriting history — because you were there when the events actually happened.
- Those wondering whether the Biden-Harris administration’s response to Hurricane Helene is the product of ineptitude, indifference, or electoral calculation should embrace the utility of conjunctions.
*A tip of the hat to Thomas Sowell, America’s greatest living intellect.